Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries, 1710-1820

Name: Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries, 1710-1820
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ISBN: 9780415288576

ISBN-10: 0415288576

ISBN-13: 9780415288576

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jeffrey Kahan, Nicholas Rowe, Richard Dodsley, John Hawkesworth, John Home

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In their own day, the works in this collection of now all-but-forgotten plays, composed between 1710 and 1820, enjoyed much critical and commercial success. For example, Nicholas Rowe'sThe Tragedy of Jane Shore(1714) was the most popular new play of the eighteenth century, and the sixth most performed tragedy, followingHamlet,Macbeth,Romeo and Juliet,OthelloandKing Lear. Even William Shirley's forgotten play,Edward the Black Prince(1750), "was well received with great applause" and had a stage history spanning three decades. This collection includes the performance text to the 1796 Ireland play,Vortigern. The plays are all reset and, where possible, modernized from original manuscripts,…

Book details

List price: $1,040.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1188
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 4.00" tall
Weight: 4.994
Language: English




The Tragedy of Jane Shore



Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style (1714)


The Revenge (1721)



The Double Falsehood (1728)



The Miller of Mansfield (1737)



Edward the Black Prince



Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style (1750)



The Earl of Essex



Written in Imitation of Shakespear's Style (1753)


Douglas



Written in Imitation of Shakspeare's Style (1756)


Edgar and Emmeline



A Comedy in Two Acts (1761)


Falstaff's Wedding, a Comedy in the Imitation of Shakspere (1766)



The Earl of Warwick (1766)



Or the Fall of Rosemund (1773)




Ireland, Vortigern, A Tragedy in Five Acts (1796) & Henry II, An Historical Drama (1796)



De Monfort (1800)



Brutus; or the Fall of Tarquin (1818)